a couple of birthday cards

Good morning everyone & it looks like being a good sunny day & also the weekend approaches.  I hope that you have some nice things lined up to do.

Today I have a couple of recently made birthday cards to show you;

This is the card that I made for our grand-daughter.  It is a 6x6 square card that I have coloured with Distress Inks & then stamped flourishes into the 2 corners.  The topper is a very thin canvas which again I coloured with toning Distress Inks.  I added a little texture in one corner with texture paste & a stencil & then stamped the images & sentiment in black ink.  The stamps - once again were freebies & are Sheena Douglass designs.

The second card is this one;

For the background of this card I used one of the pages I had created on my Gelli Plate. After distressing the edges I stamped the Butterfly Birthday Wishes Flourish (which was another freebie recently along with a butterfly embossing folder).  Then in the 2 corners I added a peel-off butterfly which I coloured black with ink.  It didn't turn the butterflies completely black but gave the gold a tarnished aged look.

Have a lovely day & I will be back soon with another recently made card.